Fox went on to say that the EPA is “not a valid source of information on fracking right now” because the agency’s science disagrees with him. After the interview, Fox posted a video on YouTube, saying that he was “very angry” with the BBC and that the organist was “repeating oil and gas industry talking points as if they’re the truth.” He also stated that “it’s 2016” and therefore fracking must contaminate ground water and the BBC was “masquerading as if they were some kind of journalists.”

Fox’s “Gasland” films became famous for a scene showing a Colorado resident light tap water on fire due to alleged natural gas dissolved in the water. Fox claimed the natural gas was from fracking operations nearby — despite decades of evidence, there was methane in the groundwater before fracking ever came to the region. When the BBC interviewer brought this up, Fox claimed it was “absolutely not true.”